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The name Borgia is synonymous with the problem, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better recognized to record as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also increased to vitality and fame - his daughter Lucrezia and her sibling Cesare, who murdered Lucrezia's husband and served as the model for Machiavelli's The Prince. The Borgias were notorious for seizing vitality, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, matrimony, and murder. The story of the family's remarkable rise from its Spanish roots to the best position in Italian world can be an absorbing tale.
